Our School's Definition of a Reportable Incident

Definition of bullying: an overt, unwanted, repeated act or gesture, including written or verbal communications or images transmitted in any manner, physical acts, or any other behaviors that are committed by a student or group of students against another student with the intent to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or harm the other targeted student and create for the targeted student an objectively hostile school environment.

Physical-Hitting/ kicking /other physical aggressionVerbal: Teasing, name-calling, put-downs, or other behavior that would hurt others’ feelings or make them feel bad.Emotional/Exclusion-starting rumors, telling others not to be friends with someone, or other actions that would cause someone to be without friendsCyber Bullying: Using an electronic medium to engage in any previously mentioned 'bullying'